MUST-READS

• Egyptian Economy
  Egyptians’ Views on Life, Economy Starting to Rebound

  After a tumultuous year of political turmoil, violence, and at times international isolation, Egyptians seem to be turning a corner. The percentage of Egyptians who rate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" has been cut in half, dropping to 16% this June, one year after hitting a record high of 34%. At the same time, the percentage who rate their lives highly enough to be considered "thriving" has nearly doubled over the same time period, rising from 9% to 17%.

• Health
  Saudi MERS patient assumed infectious on Doha-Vienna flight

  A Saudi woman suffering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is assumed to have been infectious when she flew from Doha to Vienna on Sept. 22, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

• Abdullatif Alkadi
  FBI Joins Hunt For Missing CSUN Student From Saudi Arabia

  The LAPD says the FBI is assisting in the investigation of a California State University, Northridge, student from Saudi Arabia who went missing two weeks ago.

• U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy
  Is Vice’s Documentary on ISIS Illegal?

  That decision means, for example, that Jimmy Carter and his Carter Center could be in violation of federal law for giving peacemaking advice to groups on the State Department’s FTO list. Any private individual who coordinates with a group on that list, or a group that the individual ought to know engages in terrorism, with the purposes of providing it advice or assistance—even on how to pursue an end to its campaign of violence—is guilty of a crime by the logic of the Roberts Court. In the justices’ judgment, the government’s interest in delegitimizing and weakening any such group easily outweighs constitutional rights to speech and association.

• U.S.-Afghanistan
  New Afghan Government Signs BSA and SOFA

  The crucial Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) have been signed by newly inducted National Security Advisor Hanif Atmar, U.S. Ambassador James B. Cunningham and NATO Ambassador to Afghanistan Maurits R. Jochems in Kabul at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.

  • Foreign Policy - Opinion: America's Longest War Could Get Even Longer
• Egypt
  Egypt court jails 68 pro-Morsi protesters

  An Egyptian court has sentenced 68 people to up to 15 years in prison over protest clashes, in the latest mass sentencing of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

• Security
  Gunmen wound Saudi policeman in Shi’ite Muslim stronghold

  Gunmen shot and wounded a Saudi policeman in the eastern part of the kingdom, state news agency SPA reported late on Tuesday, in an attack that highlights the volatile situation in the area ahead of the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage.

• U.S. and Syria
  Obama efforts to oust Assad pushed to back burner

  But Assad’s future is coming under fresh scrutiny as the U.S. and its allies launch airstrikes against militants who have gained a stronghold in Syria amid the chaos of the civil war that has left 200,000 people dead. Given that the Islamic State group is one of the Syrian government’s strongest opponents, the strikes have created an unexpected alignment between Obama and Assad that the Syrian president is seeking to exploit in order to gain legitimacy.

  • Washington Post - The rise in U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, in one graphic
  • Long War Journal - Al Nusrah Front leader says Americans and Europeans will pay the 'tax' of war Read more: htt
  • CSBA - Estimating the Cost of Operations Against ISIL
  • Al-Arabiya - Kurdish forces attack ISIS on three fronts
  • Defense One - This Site Tracks the Guns Going Into Syrian Bush’s Laws of War
• U.S.-Afghanistan
  We Finally Have a Security Agreement With Afghanistan—What’s Next?

  Approximately 9,800 soldiers are expected to stay in Afghanistan after the end of 2014, down from about 38,000 at the beginning of the year. By the end of 2015, that number will be cut in half to about 4,900, and soldiers will be located in two areas: the capital city of Kabul and Bagram Air Base, roughly an hour north of the capital.

  • Times of India - Afghanistan to sign US troop deal today: Report
  • Dawn - Afghanistan, US sign long-awaited security pact
• Saudi Arabia and Counter-terrorism
  UN Week – Prince Saud Al Faisal Speech to the Global Counter Terrorism Forum

  ‘Today we are facing a very dangerous situation as terrorism has turned from cells into armies and from hiding into hotbeds to have shelters in countries and misusing their capacities. It has formed a dangerous cordon engulfing Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Before these dangerous facts, we are required to take the most firm and fateful policies and decisions to combat this vicious attack with all the possible serious and rapid move, taking into account the elements of time and the consequences of inaction.

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